Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.
Journal News: March 2025
Journal News: March 2025
Journal News: Annual Review
Thanks to Reviewers
TCS E-Special Issue: Judith Butler
Edited by Elena Loizidou
Journal News: March 2024
Journal News: November 2023
Journal News: Annual Review
Thanks to Reviewers
Journal News: November 2023
Journal News: November 2023
TCS Special Issue: ‘Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien’
Edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
TCS Special Issue: ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’
Edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
Journal News: Annual Review
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Jürgen Habermas & the Digital Transformation of the Political Public Sphere
By Rainer Winter and Sunil Manghani
Thanks to Reviewers
Journal News: October 2022
Journal News: September 2022
TCS Special Issue: ‘A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?’
Edited by Martin Seeliger and Sebastian Sevignani
B&S Special Issue: ‘Symmetries of Touch’
Special Issue: Edited by Rebekka Ladewig and Henning Schmidgen
Journal News: May 2022
TCS Special Issue: ‘Solid Fluids’
Special Issue: Edited by Tim Ingold and Cristián Simonetti
Journal News: January 2022
TCS Special Issues
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins
Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen
Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer
John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller
Complexity, edited by Oliver Human
TCS Book Series
'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift
'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien
'After Capital', Couze Venn
'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling
'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao
'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard
B&S Special Issues
Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley
The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith